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Why The Budget Of India’s Richest City Is A Mystery
An analysis of the 2014-15 budget presented by the commissioner of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) shows that more than 75% of the revenue earned or received and more than 50% of...
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What I Did With My 0.99 Sq M Of Mumbai
Tucked away in a quiet Northern Mumbai suburb, the city’s growing space crunch hit me around the same time I realised I was no longer a little kid. With the tumultuous years of adolescence, came a...
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How Indian Cities Can Budget For Women’s Needs
“A gender-responsive budget is a budget that acknowledges the gender patterns in society and allocates money to implement policies and programmes that will change these patterns in a way that moves...
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Why Mumbai Has Few Flats To Rent
With a population of almost 21 million, a population density of 32,300 persons per sq km and an average of 909 people moving to the city every day to seek their fortunes, it is no wonder that the...
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Metro For Mumbai Only By 2021–God Willing
For years, Priyanka Dias, 25, a business analyst with a global IT firm in the special economic zone of Santacruz Electronics Export Processing Zone (SEEPZ), in the western suburb of Andheri, spent...
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A 7-Step Blueprint To Recreate Mumbai
The Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), contributes 5% to India’s GDP, 33% to Maharashtra’s GDP, and accounted for 5% of India’s urban population in 2012. By 2030, MMR alone will be bigger than many...
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Revealed: Docklands Revival, Mumbai’s Last Chance
For more than a half a century now, the forbidding ramparts of the Mumbai Port Trust have marked the mysterious, south-eastern boundary of India’s crumbling, financial megapolis. The stately,...
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